User talk:Bob Burkhardt

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Hello Bob Burkhardt, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here.

You'll find an (incomplete) index of our works listed at Wikisource:Works, although for very broad categories like poetry you may wish to look at the categories like Category:Poems instead.

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The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page!

Stratford490 (talk) 21:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for correcting my typos in the EB articles

A few of them are especially embarrassing. "Devolution to abstract principles of democracy and liberty"? I remember thinking that was a really strange way of using "devolution", and now I know why. Ha! Athelwulf (talk) 08:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Thanks for having your version there. It helped me find some stray characters and problems in the copy I was using (OCR text from archive.org which I had proofed but by no means caught all the problems). Bob Burkhardt (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Full author template

Hi Bob, The {{Author}} template requests that its use be of the full template and to retain the order. If you are using Firefox as your browser, you can even get set it within your preferences to load the relevant Header and Author templates in the respective namespaces. Generally with new authors a quick attempt will be made to add relevant detail. I often find that Archive.org can give some basic detail, eg. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A(Carl%20Mirbt) Thanks. -- billinghurst (talk) 00:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for the notice. I don't mind putting in more detail if I can get the info quickly. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 12:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Sweet. I am doing many author pages for DNB and we seem to have a number of contributors in common. Happy to have a look for basic info in other sources if that helps. -- billinghurst (talk) 07:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Transwiki'd 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amsterdam (Holland)

Hi Bob. The text now at 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amsterdam (Holland) was on a talk page at WP with a request to move to WS. I have imported text, and wondered whether you would be able to work your EB1911 magic on the piece. Thanks! -- billinghurst (talk) 01:31, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Amsterdam isn't on my todo list, but I'm sure putting it where you did will eventually get it to someone's attention. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 01:55, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

k Thx -- billinghurst (talk) 02:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] EB1911 Volume 19

I meant to respond to this some time ago, but I got busy with other things. Thanks for listing these pages on the index page. My previous experiment with putting articles about the same encyclopedic subject together on the same page had mixed results. Linking to these from "works about" on an author page only works if the person is an author. Even looking at the EB alone show how incredibly complicated the task can become. (See my User:Eclecticology/EB Synopsis.) Wikisource has done little or nothing so far about material from old dictionaries (like Johnson's) where relatively short articles are commonplace. The optimal solution is likely somewhere between the two extremes of completely separate articles, and articles accumulated on a single page. Eclecticology - the offended (talk) 17:42, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Britannica articles needing translations

I've created a new category, Category:Texts needing translations, and have moved all the articles from the Britannica articles needing translations categories to new Texts needing translations categories. I've proposed the old categories for deletion at Wikisource:Proposed deletions. I see you're still adding articles to the old categories, so you should probably start using the new ones or argue against the switch at Proposed deletions.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:53, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

My apologies; I realized that I'd failed to completely follow through with the deletion by adding the notes on the pages and notifying you when I saw the new articles.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:07, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] EB aid - EB1911 Article Link

FYI I have created {{EB1911 Article Link}}, so if you like it, you may use it. If you don't like the name of the template, we may rename it. An example of use of the template is in the article 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Epistemology. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] EB1911 headwords

I have entered the article "Negotiable instrument" in EB1911, but I wonder whether it should better be capitalized as "Negotiable Instrument". EB1911 refers to its articles in title case rather than sentence case; this is not apparent in headwords, as these are written in all caps such as "BILL OF EXCHANGE", but it is apparent in links to articles, such as when the article "Negotiable Instrument" refers to "Bill of Exchange" in "see also"[1], capitalized as "Bill of Exchange" with capital "E".

In this edit, I have added to style manual that article names should be capitalized in sentence case ("Bill of exchange"), but I am no longer sure it is the best option; I codified what I have seen was the common practice.

What do you think of this issue? Do you know of any past discussion about capitalization of headwords of EB1911 articles? --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] modified edit

I made some changes to your edit here, revert them or let me know if you disagree. Regards, Cygnis insignis (talk) 19:34, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I answered at my talk, but another comment: I prefer your template, the links are appropriate and it is a simple citation style. You might check WP:MOS to see what the style is this week ;-) Is it possible to add an option to hide the icon? Cygnis insignis (talk) 23:50, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation pages for share Dictionary entries

At some stage there were some general pages created that lumped together EB1911, DNB and other dictionary/encyclopaedia pages. Many seem to have now been split back to component parts, though the co-joined pages still existed. I am now converting them to {{disambiguation}} pages, and it is probably how we can look to manage non-fiction pages where the same person is covered by multiple sources, eg. Blake, William and Monro, Robert. If you have any thoughts, happy to hear them.-- billinghurst (talk) 03:14, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Index:1911 Encyclopedia Britanica vol-1a-ad valorem .djvu

I presume you are aware that [[Index:1911 Encyclopedia Britanica vol-1a-ad valorem .djvu] is uploaded at Commons and available (other vols. I haven't checked.) At the DNB project we have been having great success using the Page: environment to prepare text for Proofread and Validated stages. If there is any of our learnings that we can share, we are more than happy to do so. billinghurst (talk) 11:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

We proof against the scans (held at Commons) and from the text layer we can import it and modify, transclude into main ns to look like this User:Bob Burkhardt/example. billinghurst (talk) 01:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, that volume at Commons doesn't seem to have a text layer. At DNB we have been getting the scans at least with a rudimentary scan which often means that we can start onto a proofread, rather than the initial transcription. -- billinghurst (talk) 01:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 1911-related templates

Hello - I assumed I'd need to talk to you at some point about matters of common interest; but what has come up was from an unexpected direction. In looking at how Wikipedia links to Wikisource pages via templates, I have found a few things to improve; but the situation with EB1911 is a bit more complex. The obvious template for what I'd want is {{1911}} over there; but the construction is somewhat awkward. For other things (DNB, Catholic Encyclopedia and a couple I have set up recently) you just pipe the template with the article name. The template {{1911}} allows one to put in any URL; and so a link to an article here is easy enough. But here's the catch: going via the URL would be a link subject to "nofollow", while a link using the interwiki code "s" would not. So being perfectionist about it, I'd like to see some modification or alternate template not subject to that disadvantage; and looking around I didn't see the exact thing I wanted. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:17, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Got a EB vol who would like some guidance

Gday. Via my talk page, I have had a query from Innotata who is looking for guidance on EB1911. I can answer the general questions, though I hesitate with some of the more specific guidance and templates that you have in play. Care to address them? Thanks. -- billinghurst (talk) 05:46, 8 December 2009 (UTC)